With so much music out there and so many ways to get music, it is really easy to have the impulse of skipping to something else in 30 seconds or less. Music is slowly getting curated with blogs and podcasts. Its sort of like radio really however nothing lasts forever and favourite radio shows and podcasts come and go. Finding consensus for best albums is really a miss rather than a hit. I hear plenty of great singles. What about the rest of the album? How does one pick top albums anyway. I have two criteria.

#1 First time I hear an album makes me stop and listen.#2 When I am doing this list, I feel guilty for not actually buying it yet (Sorry Feist, I have not been to the record store yet. Yes I can get it on emusic like I did for Ezekiel Honig and National Parks Project but I want a disc.)